Paid for by Citizens for Colburn Committee. Authority John W. Phillips, Jr., Treasurer
Below is a list of
the bills that Rich introduced, co-sponsored or supported since 1999.
The lists speak for themselves in terms of Rich's continued dedication
to his constituents of the Eastern Shore.
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Sponsored
Bills: 1999
SB 533 Status as of April 12, 1999: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations Creation of a State Debt - Talbot County - Avalon Theatre Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations Synopsis: Creates a State Debt not to exceed $60,000 as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Avalon Foundation, Inc. for the restoration, renovation, repair, rehabilitation, reconstruction, construction, and capital equipping of the historic Avalon Theatre facilities in Easton and requires the grantee to grant and convey a certain easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. Co-Sponsored Bills: 1999 SB 175 Status
as of May 27, 1999: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Alters the calculation of a payment by the State each fiscal year to qualifying municipalities based on the number of sworn police officers employed full-time by the municipality. States that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the increased municipal sworn officer allocation be included in the Governor's budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1999. SB 312 Status
as of April 10, 1999: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary Synopsis: Requires the Maryland Parole Commission to provide notice to members of the public when it recommends to the Governor that an inmate be pardoned, that an inmate's sentence be commuted, or that an inmate receive any other act of clemency. Requires the Governor to give notice to the General Assembly and the public of the decision to grant a pardon, commutation, or remission at least 90 days before the pardon, commutation, or remission becomes effective. SB 419 Status
as of March 31, 1999: Bill is in the House - First Reading Economic
Matters Synopsis: Establishes a Smart Growth Economic Development Infrastructure Fund as a non lapsing fund within the Department of Business and Economic Development, to be used for providing financial assistance to qualified economically distressed counties or the Maryland Economic Development Corporation for the purposes of financing economic development projects. Provides that a municipal corporation may apply for financial assistance from the Fund. SB 610 Status
as of May 27, 1999: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: The
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is authorized
to post on the Internet a current listing of each person who is registered
as an offender, child sexual offender, sexually violent offender,
or sexually violent predator. The listing must include each registrant's
name, offense, and other identifying information in accordance with
Department regulations.
Sponsored Bills: 2000
SB 470 Status as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 533 Creation of a State Debt - Dorchester County - Meredith House Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations Synopsis: Creates a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, as a grant to the Board of Trustees of Dorchester County Historical Society, Inc. for the design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Meredith House, the primary museum building on the LaGrange Plantation, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund. SB 474 Status
as of May 19, 2006: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Authorizes the Talbot County governing body or a municipal corporation in Talbot County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on personal property. SB 484 Status
as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Persons who are convicted under law of knowingly and willfully manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, bringing into, or transporting in the State a controlled dangerous substance liable in a civil action for damages for the death of an individual proximately caused by the individual's use of the controlled dangerous substance. SB 629 Status
as of April 10, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000 with the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of new buildings, and for the repair, renovation, and reconstruction of existing facilities and exhibits, including Marine Railway and Vessels, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Talbot County, subject to a matching fund requirement. SB 795 Status
as of April 10, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000 with the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Pemberton Hall Foundation, Inc. for the repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of Pemberton Hall and associated facilities on the surrounding plantation land, subject to a matching fund requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund. SB 837 Status
as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Authorizes the Dorchester County governing body to grant a property tax credit for property tax imposed on agricultural land that is located in an agricultural preservation district or is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement or similar easement. SB 902 Status
as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Amends Chapter 203 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Dorchester County - Stanley Institute: Rock School House Loan of 1998, to extend the date by which the grantees must provide and expend a matching fund to June 1, 2002. Co-Sponsored
Bills: 2000 Synopsis: Requires the Governor to include $250,000 in the State budget of fiscal year 2001 to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to be donated to the World War II Memorial Fund. SB 281 Status
as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 251 Synopsis: Requires the Motor Vehicle Administration to develop and make available a specially designed registration plate honoring Maryland agriculture. Establishes eligibility for the registration plate and the manner in which fees in connection with the registration plate will be established, collected, and distributed. SB 650 Status
as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 547 Synopsis: Alters the minimum allocations per each resident that each participating regional resource center shall receive for operation and capital expenses. SB 670 Status
as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 295 Synopsis: Exempts from the sale and use tax clothes washers, room air conditioners, and refrigerators that meet or exceed applicable Energy Star efficiency guidelines, specified energy efficient heating and cooling equipment, and fuel cell electric generating equipment. Allows a motor vehicle excise tax credit for qualified electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles and State income tax credits for specified solar energy property and for electricity produced from qualified energy resources. SB 679 Status
as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 552 Synopsis: Establishes the Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund to be administered by the Board of Public Words as a continuing, nonlapsing fund. SB 849 Status
as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-file signed Synopsis: Authorizes
the Secretary of Agriculture to pay farmers money for Federal Crop
Insurance premiums that are eligible to participate in the Federal
Crop Insurance Program.
Sponsored Bills: 2001
SB 557 Status as of April 9, 2001: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations Creation of a State Debt - Talbot County - Academy Art Museum Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000 with the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Academy Art Museum for the planning, design, construction, renovation, and capital equipping of the Performance Arts Education Center and other facilities at the Academy Art Museum, located at 106 South Street in Easton and provides for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. SB 600 Status
as of February 21, 2001: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $590,000 with the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of new buildings, and for the repair, renovation and reconstruction of existing facilities and exhibits, including Marine Railway and Vessels, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Talbot County, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. SB 889 Status
as of May 17, 2001: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative Synopsis: Adds a new article to the Annotated Code of Maryland to be designated and known as the "Mid-Shore Regional Council" and establishes the Council as a regional planning and development agency for Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot counties. It provides for the function and dissolution of the Council while providing for the membership and terms of the Council. Co-Sponsored Bills: 2001 SB 812 Status
as of March 27, 2001: Bill is in the House - First Reading Judiciary Synopsis: A person
who is convicted of first-degree rape or first-degree sexual offense
must serve a 10-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment. The mandatory
minimum term of imprisonment may not be suspended and may not be eligible
for parole.
Sponsored Bills: 2002
SB 714/HB 224
Status as of May 15, 2002: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: Requires the annual benefit assessment for shore erosion prevention works to be paid in counties at a specified time. A default in payment of the annual benefit assessment is a first lien on specified property subject only to specified property taxes and the lien is not extinguishable by sale of specified property. Co-Sponsored Bills: 2002 SB 52 Status as
of April 25, 2002: Became Law - Chapter 112 Synopsis: Establishes conditions for the termination of registration in a specified program for the registration of sex offenders and other offenders. SB 447/HB 493
Status as of May 6, 2002: Became Law - Chapter 313 Synopsis: Alters the definition of "conservation tillage equipment" for purposes of a subtraction modification for conservation tillage equipment to include deep no-till rippers that do not invert the soil profile and are used to address compaction in high residue cropping systems. Applicable to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2001. SB 493/HB 353
Status as of May 15, 2002: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed signed Synopsis: The Department of Natural Resources is authorized to do a study and analysis of Ariakensis oysters. Authorizes the research and experimentation in Maryland waters with live, nonnative oysters. SB 537/HB 838
Status as of May 6, 2002: Became Law - Chapter 322 Synopsis: Prohibits an employer from requiring a nurse to work more than the scheduled hours according to a predetermined work schedule. Also, a nurse may not be considered to be responsible for the care of a patient beyond the nurse's predetermined work schedule. Employers are required to exhaust all good faith, reasonable attempts to ensure that appropriate staff is available to accept responsibility for care of a patient beyond a nurse's predetermined work schedule. SB 577 Status
as of May 15, 2002: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative Synopsis: Alters the definition of sexually violent offense to include crimes committed against a person under a specified age and to include crimes committed in jurisdictions that, if committed in this State, would constitute specified offenses. Alters the definition of "sexually violent predator" to include offenders and persons who are or were required to register for certain time periods under the laws of those jurisdictions. SB 801 Status
as of April 25, 2002: Became Law - Chapter 187 Synopsis: Authorizes
a defendant who seeks a court to revise, modify, or reduce a sentence
to file a motion within 90 days after the sentence is imposed. Limits
to 1 year the revisory power of the courts over sentencing and requires
a decision that changes the original sentence to be in writing and
state the reasons for the decision. Prohibits the filing of a motion
to revise, modify, or reduce a sentence in cases involving convictions
for sexual crimes committed against children.
Sponsored Bills: 2003
SB 8/HB 202 Status
as of April 22, 2003: Became Law - Chapter 56 Synopsis: Prohibits a person, with the intent to defraud, from manufacturing, counterfeiting, or causing, aiding, or assisting in counterfeiting United States currency. Prohibits a person, with the intent to defraud, from making, scanning, recording, reproducing, transmitting, or possessing certain images of United States, currency. Establishes penalties for a violation of this law. SB 460/HB 1063
Status as of January 31, 2003: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,275,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Arts Center, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, and capital equipping of the center to convert it into a community center for the arts. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund. Also requires that the grantee conveys a historical easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. SB 465/HB 160
Status as of January 31, 2003: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Academy Art Museum for the planning, design, construction, renovation, and capital equipping of the Performance Arts Education Center and other facilities at the Academy Art Museum in Easton. Requires the grantee to grant an historic easement and the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund. SB 473/HB 325
Status as of April 22, 2003: Became Law - Chapter 92 Synopsis: Includes processed and pasteurized chicken litter in the percentage price preference for recycled materials. Co-Sponsored Bills: 2003 SB 56 Status as
of May 13, 2003: Became Law - Chapter 210 Synopsis: Allows an honorably discharged veteran of World War II or the Korean Conflict to apply to county boards of education to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from a full-time public or private high school under specified circumstances. SB 626/HB 805
Status as of May 13, 2003: Became Law - Chapter 258 Synopsis: Clarifies
the range of uses and activities allowed on property with an agricultural
land preservation easement and reduces the number of lots allowed
to be excluded from an easement. Authorizes a specified number of
unrestricted lots to be excluded from an easement and establishes
criteria and conditions for excluding an unrestricted lot from an
easements while authorizing the exclusion of existing dwellings as
a specified lot.
Sponsored Bills: 2004
SB 668/HB 515
Status as of February 25, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,275,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Arts Center, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, and capital equipping of the center to convert it into a community center for the arts that will include gallery space, studios, classes, performing arts, and handicapped access, located in Cambridge. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund. SB 669/HB 50 Status
as of February 25, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000 as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Dorchester County Historical Society, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, site preparation, landscaping, and capital equipping of a new museum building to consolidate several historical collections at one location and to provide for the preservation of additional historic information and artifacts, located in Cambridge, MD. SB 671 Status
as of April 27, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 134 Synopsis: Authorizes the Dorchester County Council to adopt an ordinance, resolution, regulation, or to take other action to authorize a person to engage in activities related to the seafood industry and to harvest seafood. Requires the County Council to hold a public hearing and obtain the written consent of the Secretary of Natural Resources before adopting an ordinance, resolution, or regulation and that without the written consent of the Secretary any ordinance, resolution, or regulation is void. SB 673/HB 16 Status
as of February 11, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial
Synopsis: Adds a new section to the Maryland Constitution to establish that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this State and submits the amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection. SB 675 Status
as of May 26, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 476 Synopsis: Repeals the requirement that the study of ariakensis oyster species proceed and be consistent in accordance with findings of the National Academy of Sciences. SB 678 Status
as of February 25, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Taxation Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $800,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Talbot County, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, and capital equipping of the Teen Center and Indoor Sport Facility Complex located in Easton. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund and establishes a deadline for the encumbrance or expenditure of the loan proceeds. SB 679 Status
as of March 24, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and
Taxation Synopsis: Alters the distribution of sales and use tax revenue and creates a Mass Transit Account within the Transportation Trust Fund. Provides for the distribution of sales and use tax revenue to the Mass Transit Account while pledging taxes collected to pay the principal and interest on bonds. Co-Sponsored Bills: 2004 SB 394/HB 201
Status as of April 27, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 122 Synopsis: Extends the termination date for the use of military administrative leave or paid leave for State employers who are on active military duty on a specified date or are activated for military duty on or after a specified date. SB 404/HB 912
Status as of May 26, 2004: Vetoed by the Governor - Crossfile signed Synopsis: Authorizes a municipal corporation to impose limitation on the uses of land or densities of development in an annexation agreement on the zoning and rezoning of land. SB 415/HB 3 Status
as of March 29, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 7 Synopsis: Establishes the Hurricane Isabel Housing Rehabilitation and Renovation Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development and that the Program shall include projects in which the Department provides low interest loans to rehabilitate or renovate primary residences, credit enhancements for private market loans to rehabilitate, renovate, or replace primary residences, and financial assistance under a buy-down program. SB 473/HB 66 Status
as of February 11, 2004: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Synopsis: Limits, to the rate of inflation for the previous calendar year, the amount of the annual increase in tuition that may be charged each academic year to a resident undergraduate or graduate student at a constituent institution of the University System of Maryland. SB 485/HB 714
Status as of April 27, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 128 Synopsis: Establishes the Solar Grant Energy Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to individuals, local governments, and businesses for portions of the costs of acquiring and installing photovoltaic property and solar water heating property. SB 504/HB 1255
Status as of May 11, 2004: Became Law - Chapter 284 Synopsis: Provides firefighters and paramedics who are employed by the Salisbury Fire Department membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System. Specifies the procedural requirements that a participating governmental unit must meet to have its firefighters or paramedics participate in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System. Sponsored Bills
2005
SB 524 Status
as of April 6, 2005: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules
and Synopsis: Authorizes the governing body of Dorchester County to reduce, by law, the percent of the assessment of personal property for property tax purposes and provides for a phase-out of the property tax on personal property, while repealing the provision that Repeals a provision of the law authorizing the governing body of Dorchester County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on personal property. SB 525/HB 32 Status
as of March 4, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $800,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Arts Center, Inc. for development and improvement purposes. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund. Also requires that the grantee conveys a certain easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. Establishes a deadline for the encumbrance or expenditure of the loan proceeds. Co-Sponsored Bills 2005 SB 107/HB 895
Status as of May 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 460 Synopsis: Includes additional sex offenses among those offenses for which a court is prohibited from staying the entering of judgment and placing a defendant on probation.
Synopsis: Provides that statements made by victims or witnesses are not excluded in a judicial proceeding by the hearsay rule. SB 213/HB 240
Status as of May 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 448 Synopsis: Authorizes the collection of DNA samples at the time of sentencing and at a suitable location in a circuit court following the imposition of sentence. SB 266 Status
as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 293 Synopsis: Increases the maximum number of teachers selected each year from 500 to 750 that participate in the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. SB 502 Status
as of April 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 155 Synopsis: Requires the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and the Department of Planning to establish a Critical Farms Program to provide interim or emergency financing for the acquisition of agricultural preservation easements on farms. Requires a county to determine if a property qualifies for the Program in accordance with criteria developed by the Foundation and the Department. SB 729 Status
as of February 16, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial
Proceedings Synopsis: Provides that a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree may be sentenced to death if the defendant murdered a law enforcement officer while the officer was not on duty if the murder was committed in retaliation. This includes correctional officers in the definition of "law enforcement officer." SB 823/HB 1226
Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill
signed Synopsis: Requires the Secretary of State to issue a State flag to be presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs to the family of a member of the military when the member is killed in the performance of duty. SJ 4 Status as
of March 14, 2005: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules
and Synopsis: Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to compensate the families of military service members who gave their lives in the service of our country and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to individuals. Sponsored Bills
2006
SB 37/HB 639 Status
as of February 15, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial
Synopsis: Requires that a person convicted of first-degree murder serve a minimum term before being eligible for parole consideration. SB 39/HB 218 Status
as of February 27, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt, in the amount of $50,000 and not to exceed $500,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. for the planning, design, and construction of a program center, located in Denton. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund. Establishes a deadline for the encumbrance or expenditure of the loan proceeds. SB 606/HB 527
Status as of February 27, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,125,000 as a grant to the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, and capital equipping of improvements to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, including the replacement of the bulkhead along the perimeter of the Museum campus. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds, and requires that the grantee provides and expends a matching fund. SB 624 Status
as of May 2, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 264 Synopsis: Authorizes a prescription, except a prescription for a prescription drug containing a specified substance, for an enrollee of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to be written or oral. Prohibits a pharmacist, when dispensing a drug to a Program enrollee, from dispensing a drug on an oral prescription unless the pharmacist promptly writes out and files the prescription. SB 767/HB 1153
Status as of February 27, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Authorizes the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,500,000 as a grant to the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Dorchester County, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, expansion, and capital equipping of the YMCA of Dorchester County. Provides for the disbursement of the loan proceeds and requires that the grantee grants and conveys an easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. Prohibits loan proceeds or the matching fund from being used for sectarian religious purposes. SB 1067/HB 416
Status as of March 8, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Budget
and Co-Sponsored Bills 2006 SB 5/HB 2 Status
as of April 8, 2006: Bill is in the House - House Conference Committee
Synopsis: Requires the Governor to appropriate funds to the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation for rural business development and assistance and establishes an Agriculture and Natural Resources Internship Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Encourages the Governor to make appropriation to agricultural programs and alters the distribution of fees from the Bay Restoration Fund. SB 22/HB 35 Status
as of May 2, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 226 Synopsis: Alters a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for military retirement income. Retirement income that is included in the subtraction modification is for individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or have disabled spouses. SB 149/HB 366
Status as of March 29, 2006: Bill is in the House - First Reading
Ways and Synopsis: Establishes a special fund to provide grants to address the problem of compulsive gambling and that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene issue grants to address this and establishes the purpose of a pilot project. SB 150/HB 302
Status as of April 6, 2006: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary Synopsis: Creates a Task Force to Study Gambling Treatment Programs in Circuit Courts and the District Court. Requires the Task Force to study how a system of gambling treatment programs may be established in circuit courts and the District Court. The Task Force must report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2007. SB 227/HB 308
Status as of May 2, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 217 Synopsis: Provides for an exemption from the sale and use tax for sales to veterans' organizations through June 30, 2009. SB 265/HB 1004
Status as of February 13, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable
Budget and Synopsis: Provides an exemption from the sales and use tax during October 2006 and April 2007 for the sale of appliances and products that meet or exceed applicable energy efficiency guidelines and solar water heaters. SB 305/HB 3 Status
as of April 7, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - Third Reading Passed Synopsis: Establishes the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship and alters eligibility requirements for the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program. Establishes a death benefit for Maryland residents serving in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts and establishes the Outreach and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Helps veterans and their dependents receive access to benefits and establishes the Task Force to Study State Assistance to Veterans. SB 357/HB 533
Status as of May 26, 2006: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative Synopsis: Alters the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for community colleges to allow colleges that are no longer eligible for funding under the size factor component to receive a percentage of funding for a number of fiscal years and provides for the distribution of size factor component grants. SB 536/HB 1239
Status as of April 7, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - Third Reading
Passed Synopsis: Requires that a planning commission in a county or municipal corporation to include plan elements when developing a comprehensive plan and provides for a specified process when developing a plan element. Requires plan elements be reviewed by the Department of the Environment and the Department of Natural Resouces. SB 578/HB 1011
Status as of February 15, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading
Budget and Synopsis: Prohibits the Prescription Drug Benefit Plan in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program from charging a co-payment for a brand-name drug that is not preferred on the State's prescription drug formulary. SB 666 Status
as of March 8, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget
and Taxation Synopsis: Provides a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for income received by an individual who is retired from a branch of the United States armed services that is attributable to employment in specified occupation. Applied to tax years 2006 through 2010 and terminated at the end of 2010. SB 690 Status
as of February 15, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial
Proceedings Synopsis: Adds a new section to the Maryland Constitution to establish that only a marriage between a man and a woman is a valid marriage in this State. Submits the amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection. SB 709/HB 1380
Status as of May 26, 2006: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative Synopsis: Establishes a grant program in the State Department of Education to assist in the funding of county library capital projects and required the Division of Library Development and Services in the Department to develop and administer the program. A grant application must contain information and the State Board of Education must approve projects by a certain date. The Governor is required to fund the program. SB 753/HB 1156
Status as of May 2, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 269 Synopsis: Establishes the Maryland Rural Broadband Coordination Board and requires that the Board and affected units of State government cooperate with entities in a specified manner for the establishment of rural broadband telecommunication services in rural and underserved areas. Establishes a Rural Broadband Assistance Fund as a special fund in the Department of Business and Economic Development. SB 763/HB 1312
Status as of March 31, 2006: Bill is in the House - First Reading
Synopsis: Establishes the First Responders Fund and establishes the purpose of the Fund. Authorizes the Director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to make grants from the Fund. SB 850/HB 1345
Status as of May 16, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 443 Synopsis: Requires the Maryland Department of Transportation to conduct analysis of the operating and capital funding needs for transit over a period of time and requires the Department to review the funding structures of transit services across the country, and in cases outside the United States. SB 896/HB 1070
Status as of May 2, 2006: Became Law - Chapter 281 Synopsis: Establishes a Commission on the Establishment of a Maryland Women in Military Service Monument and provides for the composition, duties, and staffing of the Commission. Provides reimbursement for travel expenses and requires the Commission to refer to a specified report. The Commission must submit a preliminary report on its findings and recommendations on or before February 1, 2007 and a final report on or before September 20, 2007. SB 1013/HB 1640
Status as of March 8, 2006: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education
Synopsis: Requires planning commissions to include growth boundaries as part of a comprehensive plan and authorizes a county and a municipal corporation to enter in a joint planning agreement. Provides for the contents of a joint planning agreement and that a joint planning agreement shall become effective on the enactment of ordinances by the county and municipal corporations. SB 1019 Status
as of May 26, 2006: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative Synopsis: Alters the formula used to calculate the normal service retirement allowances for individuals who are members of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System on or after June 30, 2006. Provides for an alternate contributory pension selection for individuals who are members of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System on or after July 1, 2006. |
